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osoab
8th December 2011, 08:05 AM
Just started reading through this. Posted here so it doesn't get lost in GD.


Our Enemy, The State (http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html)
by Albert J. Nock - 1935
His Classic Critique Distinguishing 'Government' from the 'STATE'.

palani
8th December 2011, 08:29 AM
The government and the state are separate entities.

114 US 270 Poindexter v. Greenhow



In the discussion of such questions, the distinction between the government of a state and the state itself is important, and should be observed. In common speech and common apprehension they are usually regarded as identical; and as ordinarily the acts of the government are the acts of the state, because within the limits of its delegation of power, the government of the state is generally confounded with the state itself, and often the former is meant when the latter is mentioned. The state itself is an ideal person, intangible, invisible, immutable. The government is an agent, and, within the sphere of the agency, a perfect representative; but outside of that, it is a lawless usurpation. The constitution of the state is the limit of the authority of its government, and both government and state are subject to the supremacy of the constitution of the United States, and of the laws made in pursuance thereof. So that, while it is true in respect to the government of a state, as was said in Langford v. U. S. 101 U. S. 341, that the maxim, that the king can do no wrong, has no place in our system of government; yet it is also true, in respect to the state itself, that whatever wrong is attempted in its name is imputable to its government, and not to the state, for, as it can speak and act only by law, whatever it does say and do must be lawful.

It is never advisable to hate the state because it turns out that YOU are that entity. Though self-hate is appropriate for those involved in S&M.